One Fine Show: ‘William Gropper, Artist of the People’ at The Phillips Collection

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

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How about that election? No matter who you were rooting for—and with such low turnout, it’s quite possible you were one of the millions rooting for neither party—you have to admit that none of it was very funny. Politics today has come to take on such melodramatic, high-stakes language that each side portrays itself as the ultimate good, and their opponents the embodiment of evil. Without nuance and specificity, you couldn’t make that classic Simpsons joke that offered a look inside the Democratic National Convention,........

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